State v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2016 · most notably State v. Benson (1988), State v. Young (1985)
1 federal appellate · 118 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Witherspoon v. Illinois · Dunaway v. New York · Bowsher v. Merck & Co. · State v. Earnhardt · Beal v. Franklin
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“). This assignment of error is overruled. By another assignment of error, defendant contends that the trial court erred in submitting the pecuniary gain aggravating circumstance after the jury had failed to find defendant guilty of first-degree murder on the theory that he killed after premeditation and deliberation. Defendant argues that if he did not possess the mens rea to commit premeditated and deliberated murder, then he also could not have had the requisite state of mind to kill for pecuniary gain. We disagree. "The gravamen of the pecuniary gain aggravating circumstance is that `the killing was for the purpose of getting money or something of value.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If, upon motion of the defendant, the court determines that there exists in the county in which the prosecution is pending so great a prejudice against the defendant that he cannot obtain a fair and impartial trial, the court must either: (1) Transfer the proceeding to another county in the judicial district or to another county in an adjoining judicial district, or (2) Order a special venire under the terms of G.S. ISA-958.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Abbott · State v. Reeb“). This assignment of error is overruled. By another assignment of error, defendant contends that the trial court erred in submitting the pecuniary gain aggravating circumstance after the jury had failed to find defendant guilty of first-degree murder on the theory that he killed after premeditation and deliberation. Defendant argues that if he did not possess the mens rea to commit premeditated and deliberated murder, then he also could not have had the requisite state of mind to kill for pecuniary gain. We disagree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Chandler
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.